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In 2019, Jeffrey Alan Schechter, an experienced showrunner and creator best known for his work on series like Stitchers and Overruled! found himself between shows and grappling with a frustration that had lingered throughout his career: the outdated, cluttered, and inefficient way TV writers' rooms functioned.
Despite the digital revolution in every other aspect of production, the core story development process still relied on corkboards, whiteboards, and index cards—tools that hadn’t changed in decades. Writers meticulously arranged and re-arranged story beats on physical boards, often struggling to keep track of changes, losing cards, and erasing and rewriting notes repeatedly.Determined to modernize the process, Schechter set out to develop a solution. The result? WritersRoom Pro—a web-based software designed to bring the efficiency of digital collaboration to the storytelling process.

When WritersRoom Pro launched in late 2019, it did so quietly. A handful of TV writers discovered the tool, appreciated its intuitive digital boards and real-time collaboration features, and began using it in their rooms. It was a step forward, but at the time, many showrunners and networks still preferred traditional in-person setups.

In early 2020, COVID-19 shut down in-person writers' rooms. Writers who had been reluctant to embrace digital tools suddenly needed a way to collaborate remotely. Virtual rooms became the new reality, and studios scrambled for a solution that could replicate the fast-paced workflow of traditional rooms. They needed WritersRoom Pro.
Almost overnight, what had been a niche tool became an industry-wide necessity. Writers across every major studio, network, and streamer in the U.S. and Canada turned to WritersRoom Pro to keep their shows on track. It provided a seamless, cloud-based environment where teams could remotely brainstorm, organize story arcs, and edit outlines together in real time—without the limitations of physical boards.

Today, WritersRoom Pro has been used on over 800 television shows by thousands of professional writers, from network procedurals to high-budget streaming dramas. What began as a personal effort to improve the creative process has evolved into an essential tool for the modern writers' room.
But Schechter’s vision doesn’t stop there. With the global power of television production and the increasing number of international co-productions, the demand for remote-friendly, professional-grade collaboration tools is greater than ever. In response, WritersRoom Pro is now expanding internationally, ensuring that writers around the world can break, structure, and refine their stories as efficiently as their Hollywood counterparts. One recent client had its’ showrunner in Connecticut, the writers in Los Angeles and the England, and the production office in Ireland – all connected seamlessly with WritersRoom Pro.

What started as one showrunner’s frustration has transformed into a global industry standard—proving that when necessity meets innovation, an entire industry can change for the better.